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Campaign card, Worchester, Mass. School Committee, 1908
From address to graduating high school seniors 1912 (Samuel P. Capen Papers, 1894-1955, 4/7/19, #18.6):
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It is distressingly easy to read nothing but cheap magazines and popular novels. We are deluged with that sort of literature. Americans are the greatest magazine readers and the greatest consumers of cheap novels in the world. The temptation to read these and nothing else is constant; and yet I believe for your intellectual welfare the temptation should be resisted. Never mind the latest popular novel. If it is worth reading you may read it five years hence just as well as today. The good ones will certainly last five years.
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From "The People and the Universities" 1926 radio address (Samuel P. Capen Papers, 1894-1955, 4/7/19, #20.28):
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...the people of the United States generally want their children to have a college education. That is to say, their concept of the kind of education desirable as the foundation for successful living has advanced one step beyond the popular concept of the year 1900.
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From Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, May 21, 1944 (Samuel P. Capen Papers, 1894-1955, 4/7/19, #24.8):
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To most Americans the good life is a life of energetic grappling with difficulties, a life of movement and of change, a life of achievement which brings them increased possessions or recognition.
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